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(the ships of a country that are employed in trading, and their crews: His son has joined the merchant navy.) marina mercanteservice n1. serviciothe food is good, but the service is slow la comida es buena, pero el servicio es lento2. oficio religioso3. revisión4. saquefirst service! ¡primer saque!tr['sɜːvɪs]1 (attention to customer) servicio■ is service included? ¿el servicio está incluido?2 (organization, system, business) servicio■ there's a 24-hour service hay un servicio permanente, hay un servicio las 24 horas3 (work, duty) servicio4 (use) servicio5 (maintenance of car, machine) revisión nombre femenino6 SMALLRELIGION/SMALL oficio, oficio religioso7 (of dishes) vajilla; (for tea, coffee) juego8 (tennis) saque nombre masculino, servicio1 (for use of workers) de servicio2 (military) de militar1 (car, machine) revisar, hacer una revisión de2 (organization, group) atender, servir3 (debt, loan) pagar los intereses de1 (work, act, help) servicios nombre masculino plural1 SMALLMILITARY/SMALL las fuerzas nombre femenino plural armadas■ which of the services were you in? ¿en qué cuerpo estuviste?\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLat your service a su disposición, para servirlehow can I be of (any) service (to you)? ¿en qué puedo servirle?it's all part of the service está incluido en el servicioto do somebody a service hacer un favor a alguienservice area área de servicioservice charge (on bill) servicio 2 (in banking) comisión nombre femenino 3 (for flat) gastos nombre masculino plural de comunidadservice flat apartamento con servicios incluidosservice industry/sector sector nombre masculino de serviciosservice road vía de accesoservice station estación nombre femenino de servicio1) maintain: darle mantenimiento a (una máquina), revisar2) repair: arreglar, repararservice n1) help, use: servicio mto do someone a service: hacerle un servicio a alguienat your service: a sus órdenesto be out of service: no funcionar2) ceremony: oficio m (religioso)3) department, system: servicio msocial services: servicios socialestrain service: servicio de trenes4) set: juego m, servicio mtea service: juego de té5) maintenance: mantenimiento m, revisión f, servicio m6) : saque m (en deportes)7)armed services : fuerzas fpl armadasn.• entrega s.f.• juego s.m.• mantenimiento (Automóvil) s.m.• misa s.f.• prestación s.f.• servicio s.m.v.• atender v.• mantener v.(§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-fut/c: -tendr-•)• reparar v.
I 'sɜːrvəs, 'sɜːvɪs1) ua) (duty, work) servicio mfive years' (length of) service — cinco años de antigüedad or de trabajo
b) ( as domestic servant)c) (given by a tool, machine)to come into service — entrar en servicio or en funcionamiento
2) u c (of professional, tradesman, company) servicio mservices 1 mile — (BrE) área de servicio a 1 milla
3) c u ( assistance) servicio mshe has done us all a service — nos ha hecho a todos un favor or servicio
my staff are at your service — mis empleados están a sus órdenes or a su entera disposición or a su servicio
how can I be of service to you? — ¿en qué puedo ayudarlo or servirlo?
4) c (organization, system) servicio mtelephone/postal service — servicio telefónico/postal
the bus/rail service — el servicio de autobusesenes
there's a daily/an hourly service to Boston — hay un servicio diario/un tren (or autobús etc) cada hora a Boston
5) ( Mil)6) u (in shop, restaurant) servicio m7) c u (overhaul, maintenance) revisión f, servicio m (AmL), service m (RPl); (before n) <contract, package> de mantenimientoservice engineer — técnico, -ca m,f de mantenimiento
8) c ( Relig) oficio m religiosowedding service — ceremonia f de boda
9) c ( in tennis) servicio m, saque mfirst/second service! — primer/segundo saque or servicio!
to break somebody's service — romper* el servicio de alguien, romperle* el servicio a alguien
10) c ( dinner service) vajilla f
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1) (overhaul, maintain) \<\<car\>\> hacerle* una revisión or (AmL) un servicio or (RPl) un service a; \<\<machine/appliance\>\> hacerle* el mantenimiento a2) ( Fin) \<\<debt/loan\>\> atender* el servicio de (frml)['sɜːvɪs]1. N1) (=work)a) (=period of work) trabajo ma middle manager with over 20 years service — un mando medio con más de 20 años de antigüedad (en la empresa)
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he saw service in Egypt — combatió en Egiptob) (=work provided) servicio m•
the company has a reputation for good service — la empresa tiene fama de dar un buen servicio (a los clientes)•
they offered their services free of charge — ofrecieron sus servicios gratuitamente•
they provide a 24-hour service — proporcionan un servicio de 24 horasc) (domestic)•
to be in service — ser criado(-a), servirshe was in service at Lord Olton's — era criada or servía en casa de Lord Olton
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to go into service (with sb) — entrar a servir (en casa de algn)2) (=organization, system) servicio m•
the diplomatic service — el servicio diplomático•
they are attempting to maintain essential services — están intentando mantener en funcionamiento los servicios mínimos•
the postal service — el servicio postal•
rail services were disrupted by the strike — el servicio ferroviario se vio afectado por la huelgasecret 3., social 3.•
the train service to Pamplona — el servicio de trenes a Pamplona3) (=help, use) servicio mhe was knighted for his services to industry — le concedieron el título de Sir por sus servicios a la industria
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Tristram Shandy, at your service! — ¡Tristram Shandy, para servirle or a sus órdenes!•
to be of service — ayudar, servirhow can I be of service? — ¿en qué puedo ayudar or servir?
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the new buses were brought into service in 1995 — los autobuses nuevos entraron en servicio en 1995•
to do sth/sb a service, you have done me a great service — me ha hecho un gran favor, me ha sido de muchísima ayudathey do their country/profession no service — no hacen ningún favor a su patria/profesión
community 2.•
to be out of service — (Mech) no funcionar, estar fuera de servicio4) (in hotel, restaurant, shop) servicio mroom 3.5) services (Econ) (=tertiary sector) sector m terciario or (de) servicios; (on motorway) área f de servicio6) (Mil)•
service life didn't suit him — la vida militar no le pegabamilitary 3., national 3.•
the Services — las fuerzas armadas7) (Rel) (=mass) misa f ; (other) oficio m (religioso)funeral 2., wedding 2.I usually go to morning service — normalmente voy a la misa or al oficio matinal
8) (Aut, Mech) revisión fthe car is in for a service — están revisando el coche, están haciendo una revisión al coche
9) (=set of crockery) vajilla f10) (Tennis) servicio m, saque m•
a break of service — una ruptura de servicioto break sb's service — romper el servicio a or de algn
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to hold/ lose one's service — ganar/perder el servicio2. VT1) [+ car] revisar, hacer la revisión a; [+ appliance] realizar el mantenimiento de2) [+ organization, committee, customers] dar servicio a, proveer de servicios a3) [+ debt] pagar el interés de3.CPDservice area N — (on motorway) área f de servicio
service charge N — (in restaurant) servicio m ; [of flat] gastos mpl de comunidad or de escalera (Sp), gastos mpl comunes (LAm)
service department N — (=repair shop) taller m de reparaciones
service economy N — economía f de servicios
service elevator N (US) — = service lift
service engineer N — técnico(-a) m / f (de mantenimiento)
service families NPL — familias fpl de miembros de las fuerzas armadas
service flat N — (Brit) piso o apartamento con servicio de criada y conserje
service hatch N — ventanilla f de servicio
service history N — [of car] historial m de reparaciones
service industry N — (=company) empresa f de servicios
the service industry or industries — el sector terciario or (de) servicios
service lift N — montacargas m inv
service line N — (Tennis) línea f de servicio or saque
service provider N — (Internet) proveedor m de (acceso a) Internet, proveedor m de servicios
service road N — vía f de acceso or de servicio
service sector N — (Econ) sector m terciario or (de) servicios
service station N — gasolinera f, estación f de servicio, bencinera f (Chile), grifo m (Peru)
service tree N — serbal m
service wife N — esposa f de un miembro de las fuerzas armadas
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I ['sɜːrvəs, 'sɜːvɪs]1) ua) (duty, work) servicio mfive years' (length of) service — cinco años de antigüedad or de trabajo
b) ( as domestic servant)c) (given by a tool, machine)to come into service — entrar en servicio or en funcionamiento
2) u c (of professional, tradesman, company) servicio mservices 1 mile — (BrE) área de servicio a 1 milla
3) c u ( assistance) servicio mshe has done us all a service — nos ha hecho a todos un favor or servicio
my staff are at your service — mis empleados están a sus órdenes or a su entera disposición or a su servicio
how can I be of service to you? — ¿en qué puedo ayudarlo or servirlo?
4) c (organization, system) servicio mtelephone/postal service — servicio telefónico/postal
the bus/rail service — el servicio de autobuses/trenes
there's a daily/an hourly service to Boston — hay un servicio diario/un tren (or autobús etc) cada hora a Boston
5) ( Mil)6) u (in shop, restaurant) servicio m7) c u (overhaul, maintenance) revisión f, servicio m (AmL), service m (RPl); (before n) <contract, package> de mantenimientoservice engineer — técnico, -ca m,f de mantenimiento
8) c ( Relig) oficio m religiosowedding service — ceremonia f de boda
9) c ( in tennis) servicio m, saque mfirst/second service! — primer/segundo saque or servicio!
to break somebody's service — romper* el servicio de alguien, romperle* el servicio a alguien
10) c ( dinner service) vajilla f
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1) (overhaul, maintain) \<\<car\>\> hacerle* una revisión or (AmL) un servicio or (RPl) un service a; \<\<machine/appliance\>\> hacerle* el mantenimiento a2) ( Fin) \<\<debt/loan\>\> atender* el servicio de (frml) -
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1. noun1) (doing of work for employer etc.) Dienst, derdo service as something — als etwas dienen
he died in the service of his country — er starb in Pflichterfüllung für sein Vaterland
2) (something done to help others)services — Dienste; (Econ.) Dienstleistungen
[in recognition of her] services to the hospital/state — [in Anerkennung ihrer] Verdienste um das Krankenhaus/den Staat
3) (Eccl.) Gottesdienst, der5) (system of transport) Verbindung, diethe number 325 bus service — die Buslinie Nr. 325
6) (provision of maintenance)[after-sale or follow-up] service — Kundendienst, der
bring into service — in Betrieb nehmen
go or come into service — in Betrieb genommen werden
8) (Tennis etc.) Aufschlag, derwhose service is it? — wer hat Aufschlag?
9) (crockery set) Service, dasdessert/tea service — Dessert-/Tee-Service, das
10) (assistance)can I be of service [to you]? — kann ich Ihnen behilflich sein?
12)BBC World Service — BBC Weltsender
14) (Mil.)the [armed or fighting] services — die Streitkräfte
15) (being servant)2. transitive verbbe in/go into service — in Stellung sein/gehen (veralt.) ( with bei)
1) (provide maintenance for) warten [Wagen, Waschmaschine, Heizung]2) (pay interest on) Zinsen zahlen für [Schulden]* * *(the ships of a country that are employed in trading, and their crews: His son has joined the merchant navy.) Handels-...* * *ser·vice[ˈsɜ:vɪs, AM ˈsɜ:r-]I. ncustomer \service Kundendienst mto offer \service Hilfe anbieten3. ( form: assistance) Unterstützung f; (aid, help) Hilfe f; (being useful) Gefälligkeit f, [guter] Dienst▪ to be of \service [to sb] [jdm] von Nutzen sein [o nützen]I'm just glad to have been of \service es freut mich, dass ich mich ein wenig nützlich machen konnteto need the \services of a surveyor einen Gutachter/eine Gutachterin brauchento do sb a \service jdm einen Dienst erweisenthese boots have seen some \service! diese Stiefel sind ziemlich strapaziert worden!civil/diplomatic \service öffentlicher/diplomatischer Dienstambulance \service Rettungsdienst mbus/train \service Bus-/Zugverbindung fcounselling \service psychologischer Beratungsdiensthealth \service Gesundheitsdienst m, Gesundheitswesen nt ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZprison \service Strafvollzug m[public] transport \service [öffentliches] Transportwesento operate a [normal/reduced] \service bus, train eine [normale/eingeschränkte] Verbindung unterhalten [o betreiben7. (roadside facilities)▪ \services pl Raststätte fto lose one's \service seinen Aufschlag abgebento spend time [or be] in the \service beim Militär seinto be [un]fit for \service militär[un]tauglich seinmilitary \service Militärdienst ma career in the \services eine militärische Laufbahnfuneral \service Trauergottesdienst mmorning/evening \service Frühmesse f/Abendandacht fto hold a \service einen Gottesdienst [ab]halten\service contract Wartungsvertrag mto take one's car in for a \service sein Auto zur Inspektion bringentea \service Teeservice nt13.▶ to be in \service (employed as servant) in Stellung sein; (be in use, in operation) im Einsatz seinII. vt* * *['sɜːvɪs]1. n1) Dienst mhis faithful service — seine treuen Dienste
her services to industry/the country (politician, industrialist) —
to do or see good service —
to be of service to sb —
to be at sb's service — jdm zur Verfügung stehen; (person also) jdm zu Diensten stehen
to need the services of a lawyer — einen Anwalt brauchen, einen Anwalt zuziehen müssen
2) (= operation) Betrieb mto see service as a soldier/sailor — beim Militär/in der Marine dienen
4) (with adj attr = branch, department etc) -dienst mBT offers different telephone services — BT bietet eine Reihe von (Telekommunikations)dienstleistungen an
6) (= bus, train, plane service etc) Bus-/Zug-/Flugverbindung fto increase services in rural areas — den Verkehr or die Verkehrslage in ländlichen Gebieten verbessern
there's no service to Oban on Sundays — sonntags besteht kein Zug-/Busverkehr nach Oban
to be in service (with sb) — (bei jdm) in Stellung sein, in jds Dienst (dat) stehen
to go into service (with sb) — (bei jdm) in Stellung gehen, in jds Dienst (acc) treten
my car is in for/has had a service — mein Auto wird/wurde gewartet, mein Auto ist/war zur Inspektion
10) (= tea or coffee set) Service ntall the services have been cut off — Gas, Wasser und Strom sind abgestellt worden
14) pl (Brit MOT) Tankstelle und Raststätte f2. vt1) car, machine wartento send a car to be serviced — ein Auto warten lassen; (major service) ein Auto zur Inspektion geben
3) cow, mare decken4) (FIN) loan, debt bedienen* * *service1 [ˈsɜːvıs; US ˈsɜr-]A s1. Dienst m, Stellung f (besonders von Hausangestellten):be in service in Stellung sein;take sb into one’s service jemanden einstellen;year of service Dienstjahr n2. Dienst m, Arbeit ffor services rendered für geleistete Dienste;the service to our customers unser Kundendienst;he paid her for her services er bezahlte sie für ihre Diensteb) pl Verdienste pl (to um)4. (guter) Dienst, Hilfe f, Gefälligkeit f:at your service zu Ihren Diensten;be (place) at sb’s service jemandem zur Verfügung stehen (stellen);5. WIRTSCH etc Bedienung f:he had to wait five minutes for service er musste fünf Minuten warten, bis er bedient wurde6. Nutzen m:will it be of any service to you? kann es dir irgend etwas nützen?7. (Nacht-, Nachrichten-, Presse-, Telefon- etc) Dienst m8. a) Versorgung(sdienst) f(m)b) Versorgungsbetrieb m:(gas) water service (Gas-)Wasserversorgung10. Aufgabe f, Amt n, Funktion f (eines Staatsbeamten etc)11. MILa) (Wehr-, Militär) Dienst mb) meist pl Truppe f, Waffengattung f12. MIL Aktion f, Unternehmen n13. MIL US (technische) Versorgungstruppe14. MIL Bedienung f (eines Geschützes etc)15. meist pl Hilfsdienst m:16. TECHa) Bedienung fb) Betrieb m (einer Maschine etc):in (out of) service in (außer) Betrieb;service conditions Betriebsbedingungen, -beanspruchung f17. TECHb) Service m, Kundendienst m (auch als Einrichtung)18. BAHN etc Verkehr(sfolge) m(f), Betrieb m:a twenty-minute service ein Zwanzig-Minuten-Verkehr19. RELa) Gottesdienst mb) Liturgie fMozart’s service Mozart-Messe f21. Service n (Essgeschirr etc):a service for six ein Service für sechs Personen22. JUR Zustellung f23. JUR, HISTb) Dienstleistung f (für einen Feudalherrn)24. SCHIFF Bekleidung f (eines Taues)25. Service m, auch n:a) Tennis etc: Aufschlag m:hold one’s service sein Aufschlagspiel gewinnen, seinen Aufschlag durchbringen oder halten;B v/t1. TECHa) warten, pflegenb) überholen, instand setzen:my car is being serviced mein Wagen ist bei der Inspektion oder beim Kundendienst2. beliefern, versorgen ( beide:with mit Material, Nachrichten etc)3. ZOOL eine Stute etc deckenservice2 [ˈsɜːvıs; US ˈsɜr-] s BOT1. Spierbaum mserv. abk1. servant2. service* * *1. noun1) (doing of work for employer etc.) Dienst, der2) (something done to help others)services — Dienste; (Econ.) Dienstleistungen
[in recognition of her] services to the hospital/state — [in Anerkennung ihrer] Verdienste um das Krankenhaus/den Staat
3) (Eccl.) Gottesdienst, der5) (system of transport) Verbindung, diethe number 325 bus service — die Buslinie Nr. 325
[after-sale or follow-up] service — Kundendienst, der
go or come into service — in Betrieb genommen werden
8) (Tennis etc.) Aufschlag, der9) (crockery set) Service, dasdessert/tea service — Dessert-/Tee-Service, das
10) (assistance)can I be of service [to you]? — kann ich Ihnen behilflich sein?
12)14) (Mil.)the [armed or fighting] services — die Streitkräfte
15) (being servant)2. transitive verbbe in/go into service — in Stellung sein/gehen (veralt.) ( with bei)
1) (provide maintenance for) warten [Wagen, Waschmaschine, Heizung]2) (pay interest on) Zinsen zahlen für [Schulden]* * *n.Betrieb -e m.Dienst -e m.Dienstleistung f.Gottesdienst m.Kundendienst m.Wartung -en f. v.warten v. -
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I 1. ['sɜːvɪs]1) (department, facility) servizio m.for services rendered — comm. per servizi resi
it's all part of the service — (don't mention it) non c'è di che; (it 's all included) è tutto compreso
"normal service will be resumed as soon as possible" — rad. telev. "i programmi riprenderanno il più presto possibile"
2) (work, period of work done) servizio m. (anche amm. mil.)to put o place sth. at sb.'s service mettere qcs. al servizio o a disposizione di qcn.; he gave his life in the service of his country ha dato la vita per servire il suo paese; to be in service stor. essere a servizio; to go into service with sb. — andare a servizio presso qcn
3) comm. (customer care) servizio m."includes service" — (on bill) "servizio compreso"
4) (from machine, vehicle, product) servizio m.to give good o long service [ machine] funzionare o durare a lungo; [product, garment] fare un buon servizio; "out of service" — "fuori servizio"
5) (transport facility) servizio m. (to per)6) aut. tecn. (overhaul) revisione f.7) relig. ufficio m.8) (crockery) servizio m.9) sport battuta f., servizio m.10) (good turn) servizio m.to do sb. a service — rendere un servizio a qcn.
to be of service to sb. — essere di aiuto a qcn
11) dir. notifica f.12) (of female animal) monta f.2.1) mil. mar.2) (on motorway) area f.sing. di servizio3.modificatore mil. [pay, pension] militare; [ personnel] militare, dell'esercito; [ life] militare, nell'esercitoII ['sɜːvɪs]to have one's car serviced — far fare la revisione alla o fare revisionare la propria auto
2) econ. pagare gli interessi di [ debt]* * *(the ships of a country that are employed in trading, and their crews: His son has joined the merchant navy.) marina mercantile* * *I 1. ['sɜːvɪs]1) (department, facility) servizio m.for services rendered — comm. per servizi resi
it's all part of the service — (don't mention it) non c'è di che; (it 's all included) è tutto compreso
"normal service will be resumed as soon as possible" — rad. telev. "i programmi riprenderanno il più presto possibile"
2) (work, period of work done) servizio m. (anche amm. mil.)to put o place sth. at sb.'s service mettere qcs. al servizio o a disposizione di qcn.; he gave his life in the service of his country ha dato la vita per servire il suo paese; to be in service stor. essere a servizio; to go into service with sb. — andare a servizio presso qcn
3) comm. (customer care) servizio m."includes service" — (on bill) "servizio compreso"
4) (from machine, vehicle, product) servizio m.to give good o long service [ machine] funzionare o durare a lungo; [product, garment] fare un buon servizio; "out of service" — "fuori servizio"
5) (transport facility) servizio m. (to per)6) aut. tecn. (overhaul) revisione f.7) relig. ufficio m.8) (crockery) servizio m.9) sport battuta f., servizio m.10) (good turn) servizio m.to do sb. a service — rendere un servizio a qcn.
to be of service to sb. — essere di aiuto a qcn
11) dir. notifica f.12) (of female animal) monta f.2.1) mil. mar.2) (on motorway) area f.sing. di servizio3.modificatore mil. [pay, pension] militare; [ personnel] militare, dell'esercito; [ life] militare, nell'esercitoII ['sɜːvɪs]to have one's car serviced — far fare la revisione alla o fare revisionare la propria auto
2) econ. pagare gli interessi di [ debt] -
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(the ships of a country that are employed in trading, and their crews: His son has joined the merchant navy.) mercante* * *serv.ice[s'ə:vis] n 1 serviço, préstimo, obséquio. can I be of any service? / posso ser útil? he will offer you his services / ele lhe oferecerá seus préstimos. 2 suprimento, serviço de mesa. 3 ocupação, emprego de servente ou criado. 4 trabalho, exercício. he is on service just now / no momento ele está em serviço. 5 ajuda, assistência, auxílio. 6 vantagem, benefício. 7 serviço público. 8 serviço militar. 9 cerimônia religiosa. they attend service / eles freqüentam a igreja. 10 Jur entrega formal, publicação de processo ou documento. 11 Tennis saque: ato ou modo de lançar a bola no jogo. 12 Naut corda fina enrolada num cabo a fim de reforçar e protegê-lo. • vt manter em ordem, consertar, prestar serviço de manutenção. baptismal service cerimônia do batismo. civil service serviço civil. computer services Comp serviços de computação. in service em serviço, em operação. postal service correio. public service serviço público. train service comunicação ferroviária. to be at someone’s service estar à disposição. he is always at your service / ele está sempre à sua disposição. -
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['səːvɪs] 1. nusługa f; (in hotel, restaurant) obsługa f; (also: train service) połączenie nt kolejowe; ( REL) nabożeństwo nt; ( AUT) przegląd m; (TENNIS) serwis m, podanie nt; (plates, etc) serwis mservices (to) — usługi (dla +gen) ( extraordinary) zasługi pl (dla +gen)
to do sb a service — wyświadczyć ( perf) komuś przysługę
2. vtto put one's car in for a service — oddawać (oddać perf) samochód do przeglądu
dokonywać (dokonać perf) przeglądu +gen* * *(the ships of a country that are employed in trading, and their crews: His son has joined the merchant navy.) marynarka handlowa -
6 World War II
(1939-1945)In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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